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Old smartphone without screen. What can you do with it?

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So recently i broke my phones screen (motorola moto x 2nd gen) but i wont be fixing it. So i opened it up removed the broken screen and now im left with the motheroard and the battery. Is there any possible project i can do with it? Maybe an multimedia center or anything

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    I would ask over at XDA-Developers Android Forums ! With no SD card, you could still use the android SDK and tools to root and write to internal. Maybe somebody has made a server app you could download (.apk) and install, but ARM CPUs are not really made for that. Either way, you should be able to get SSH to work, and you could play with around with it remotely I presume. They probably have now programs that run on your PC and emulate the screen.

     

    If I were you, I'd check over at https://archlinuxarm.org/  forums, and see if you can install Linux for your version of ARM CPU. The trouble with Android phones is the locked bootloader and the driver support. There likely isn't anything readily available to interface with the camera, wifi, etc. Maybe somebody could/did program something for that phone, or better yet, maybe somebody ported the android java-based drivers to Linux. (I don't think either is likely at this point, however.)

     

    I had a Motorola Atrix that I was able to install Ubuntu onto in place of the "Lapdock." (Tutorial from xda-developers.) So, when the HDMI cable was plugged in, it would load Ubuntu and treat the touchscreen as mouse/keyboard. If no luck afterall, the parts may be worth something, or worth keeping -- those really tiny components are neat -- or you could repair and sell it for more probably.

     

    God bless.

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    I would ask over at XDA-Developers Android Forums ! With no SD card, you could still use the android SDK and tools to root and write to internal. Maybe somebody has made a server app you could download (.apk) and install, but ARM CPUs are not really made for that. Either way, you should be able to get SSH to work, and you could play with around with it remotely I presume. They probably have now programs that run on your PC and emulate the screen.

     

    If I were you, I'd check over at https://archlinuxarm.org/  forums, and see if you can install Linux for your version of ARM CPU. The trouble with Android phones is the locked bootloader and the driver support. There likely isn't anything readily available to interface with the camera, wifi, etc. Maybe somebody could/did program something for that phone, or better yet, maybe somebody ported the android java-based drivers to Linux. (I don't think either is likely at this point, however.)

     

    I had a Motorola Atrix that I was able to install Ubuntu onto in place of the "Lapdock." (Tutorial from xda-developers.) So, when the HDMI cable was plugged in, it would load Ubuntu and treat the touchscreen as mouse/keyboard. If no luck afterall, the parts may be worth something, or worth keeping -- those really tiny components are neat -- or you could repair and sell it for more probably.

     

    God bless.

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